How To Say Guinea Pig In Different Languages

[Wiebke]

Can you add to the list?

• Albanian: derr Indie kavie
• Danish: marsvin
  Croatian: zamorac
  Czech: morce
  
• Dutch: Guinees biggetje, Cavia, marmot (obsolete); caafje
  
• English: Guinea pig, Cavy
• Finnish: marsu
• French: Cobaye, Cochon d'Inde
• German: Meerschweinchen; Swiss German: Meersäuli; slang: Meeri
  
• Greek: indiko hiridio, piramatozoo
• Hungarian: tengeri malac
• Indonesian: Marmot
  Irish: muc ghuine
  
• Italian: Porcellino d'India, cavia
• Japanese: marumotto
• Kurd: miskal
• Latin: Cavia porcellus
  Mandarin Chinese: tunshu
  
• Polish: swinka morska
• Portugese: Porquinho da Índia, cobaia
• Rumanian: cobai
• Russian: marskaya svinka
  Serbian: morsko prase, zamorce
  Slovakian: morca
  
• Spanish: conejillos de Indias; cuy, cuya, cuye, cuyo; cobaya, cobayo
  
• Swedish: marsvin
• Turkish: kobay
  Welsh: mochyn cwta

List courtesy of: meerschweinchen.de

 

[Wiebke]

I have got two more additions:
- Welsh: mochyn cwta
- Swiss German: Meersaeuli, Meeri

 

[sport_billy]

Oooo I likes it

I knew the french word as I used it in my GSCE exam, I didn't know about piggies then either.... Must have been a premonition

 

[Maisy and Poppy]

I only knew Cochon D'inde because I am half Belgian.

 

[Maisy and Poppy]

Oh and guinea pig and cavy.

 

[Goth Mummy]

I like the Albanian words myself!

 

[Abbie]

I enjoyed reading through those, okay I probably said half of them wrong, but I had fun trying

I think the Albanian one was my favourite too!

 

[Chief Guinea Pig]

The Greek made me chuckle! Piramatozoo!

 

[His Pig Friday]

Morče in Czech

 

[Wiebke]

Morče in Czech

Thanks! I will add it to the list!

 

[His Pig Friday]

No problem - also, morča in Slovak! Very similar languages!

 

[Wiebke]

No problem - also, morča in Slovak! Very similar languages!

I know; I just wish I could get the codes for the c to work!

 

[His Pig Friday]

Ah, I'm on my iPad, just need to hold the letter key down and it gives the options. Lazy typing!

 

[Flutterby]

That's a very handy list. Love the Greek name

 

[Tyanna]

Love it! You already have the German and Spanish, which is all I know, so I'm not much help!

 

[Freela]

It's also strange how many of them are just as baffling as 'guinea pig' is in English in describing what a guinea pig actually is... My kids and I speak French fluently and I can remember my kids being puzzled by cochon d'Inde, since it literally translates to Indian pig and they were aware that guinea pigs are not from India (it had apparently never occurred to them that they don't come from Guinea either!)